Bard spotting on Bluesky 10 November 2024

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):

When you think about crypto coin specifically, the type that Elon and the silicon fascists are infatuated with as company scripts the reasoning for their insistence on replacing the dollar with it makes more sense.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Also:

Avoids taxation;

Can't be seized by govt's as product of criminal enterprise;

Defeats traditional forensic accounting techniques;

And as @mc.frontalot.com famously observed,

"You can't hide secrets from the future with math"

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Eventually someone is going to discover a weakness in the cipher / contract / wallet / whatever, and the largest mass transfer of wealth in the history of the planet is going to happen from a lot of stakeholders to one clever sociopath.

Navid (@naveman.bsky.social):

As soon as we have quantum computers which we are on the cusp of figuring out then crypto becomes obsolete.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

*some crypto. Some.

Especially crypto that's predicated on public/private key exchange over unsecured comms.

For cryptography based on one time keys — no amount of probabalistic attack will work, presuming properly random keys.

I DISSENT (@mtatro.bsky.social):

Facts. What a concept. BTW, I enjoyed the entire exchange. I forgot what smart discourse sounded like.